Centric VIP, for visual, touch-based devices such as tablets and
touchscreen televisions, is fully connected with Centric PLM and is a
platform dedicated to mood, material, style, allocation, merchandising,
line and sales boards. This innovative platform drives digital
transformation and decision-making, significantly reducing time to
market and generating major productivity gains for creative and
technical teams as well as executives.

Visual Studio Boards are a highly collaborative, visual sandbox
environment where designers can be creative and play yet also share
ideas with other teams. Designers can pull in sketches, images, colors,
materials and more from previous collections and desktop files as well
as directly from a web browser, such as an image search or a trend
service site. They can create new information on the fly and build ideas
for products and collections. As ideas mature, product development and
production teams add their input resulting in more creative, higher
quality and higher margin products.

Information syncs seamlessly giving teams a global view of materials,
colors and styles, and allowing them to make decisions and see changes
live. Teams can be located in the same room or around the world and, as
Centric VIP is system-agnostic, information can be drawn from Centric 8
PLM or other business systems such as ERP, PIM, DAM, etc.

Today, the design process revolves around paper-based, cumbersome ways
of working: printed spreadsheets made into ‘books’ and large foam core
boards filled with cut-outs, handwritten notes, post-its, stickers and
other bits of information. These analog ways of working are extremely
time-consuming to compile and prone to error, with output impossible to
communicate and execute quickly and accurately. Creativity is often
hampered due to the lack of easy to understand, clear information and
time lost searching for details.

Visual Studio Boards make ideas flow smoothly from designers to product
teams for commercialization and production. In this new digital space,
designers and other teams can ideate without limits, evolve concepts to
maturity and execute them in collaboration with one another to boost
innovation and quality while drastically cutting time to market.

“Visual Studio Boards are a game-changing, completely market-driven
innovation that transforms the design and ideation process,” says Chris
Groves, President and CEO of Centric Software. “They let creativity
flourish while also taking advantage of technical and production
expertise to speed time to market, boost innovation and improve product
quality.”